Member Directory
Browse our members’ profiles to learn more about them. Please note: If you're searching for a specific member, it is most effective to search using their first or last name only.
Antigonish
Toronto
Toronto
Leanne Toshiko Simpson is a mixed-race Yonsei writer, educator and psychiatric survivor from Scarborough. She is a graduate of UTSC Creative Writing and the University of Guelph’s MFA, and is currently completing a SSHRC-supported EdD in Social Justice Education at the…
Ottawa
Ottawa
Michelle Sinclair worked for two decades on policy related to human rights. She has lived, studied or worked in Australia, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Ecuador, France, Switzerland and the United States. Her fiction, nonfiction, and translations from Spanish to English have appeared…
Toronto
Ottawa
Vancouver Island
Vancouver Island
Shanon Sinn is the author of The Haunting of Vancouver Island and several shorter works of fiction and nonfiction. He is also the editor and publisher of Black Cat - a collection of eerie tales set in BC's Pacific Northwest. His writing and illustrations often focus on ghost…
Montréal
Oakville
Oakville
Pat is a Metis writer and author of eight books for children. Her new picture book - “Lights Along the River” - will be published by Orca Book Publishing in spring 2024. Her new memoir, “Swiftly Flowing Waters” will also be released by Plumleaf Press in…
Nanaimo
Nanaimo
Patricia Jane Skidmore was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, and spent most of her childhood growing up in the Vancouver suburb of Coquitlam. For her, being a daughter of a child migrant was a shameful and often worrying experience. She didn’t feel that she belonged. There…
Brantford
Brantford
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch is the author of 20+ books for young people. Her scrupulously researched historical fiction and narrative non-fiction focuses on refugees and war from a young person’s perspective. Her books have won many honours, but her favourites are the provincial…
Cumberland
Saskatoon
Hamilton
Hamilton
I am a mother, daughter, sister, a palliative care doctor and now an author. I have always loved reading and would devour any books I could get my hands on as a teenager. When it came to school though I was a serious science nerd. As a grown-up even when I had almost no money I…
VANCOUVER
VANCOUVER
Hendrik Slegtenhorst has published fourteen books and over 140 works in established media.
His interests are music, literature, and the arts; the natural environment and the urban landscape; and, the realization of community identity, aspirations, and needs. His work…
Pain Court
Pain Court
Kara Smith, poet Ghobhainn, is an educator and poet living in the Western Hebrides. She is best known for the travel poetry series The Travelling Professor; The Artists of Crow County (Black Moss Press, 2017); memoir Next to the Ice (Mosaic Press, 2016); the text …
Victoria
Victoria
Monique Gray Smith is an award-winning, best-selling author. Her books cover a broad spectrum of ages, topics and emotions. Woven into all of Monique’s writing, speaking engagements and online courses is the teaching that Love is Medicine. Monique’s novel, Tilly and the Crazy…
Kelowna
Markham
Markham
Douglas Smith is a five-time award-winning author described by Library Journal as “one of Canada's most original writers of speculative fiction.”
His latest work is the multi-award-winning YA urban fantasy trilogy, The Dream Rider Saga (The Hollow Boys, The Crystal Key, and The…
